Established in 1918,
Plesner
is a leading Danish business law firm based in Copenhagen.
The firm is strong across the board covering all areas of
commercial law and public law and the team consistently advises on some of the market’s largest mandates and transactions.
The firm acted as lead counsel on the
acquisition financing of NASDAQ listed US biotech
business Longboard Pharmaceuticals by Danish listed
pharmaceuticals group, H. Lunbeck.
As sole legal counsel, the firm
assisted on all
matters relating to the finance documents and the finalising of the acquisition agreement.
Another notable transaction the firm advised on was its role
assisting Sampo plc on its public
exchange offer to
the shareholders of
Topdanmark A/S and its
subsequent dual listing of Sampo’s A shares on Nasdaq
Copenhagen.
The valuation of
Topdanmark’s outstanding shares, valued at
€4.4 billion making it one of the biggest public takeovers in Denmark.
In capital markets equity, the firm played a
crucual role in assisting BNP PARIBAS,
Danske Bank A/S, HSBC Continental Europe S.A., Germany, Nordea Danmark, Filial
af Nordea Bank
Abp, Finland, and J.P. Morgan SE in regard to DSV A/S’s offering of new shares through a
directed issue and private placement for DSV A/S’s
acqusiition of Schenker AG.
The capital raise, valued at $5.5 billion,
makes it the largest ever Nordic capital raise and largest global primary accelerated bookbuilding since 2015.
“Prompt in response and commercial in their advice.” - Banking and finance
“Plesner is amongst the best within banking and finance-area and delivers expertise on an ongoing basis. They are very hands-on and pragmatic to reduce issues list to most important.” - Banking and finance
“The Plesner team's availability is excellent and they understand client needs and also listen to the client. The expertise of the team meets all expectations and they have a super good mix of senior and junior people in the team.” - Banking and finance
“High quality documents, proactive. I consider Jakob Echwald Sevel as the best finance lawyer in Denmark” - Banking and finance
“Very knowledgeable, commercial, approachable” - Insolvency
“Very approachable, highly pragmatic on complex cases, working extensive hours when needed, provides specific and actionable advice etc.” - Banking and finance
Sampo plc, The Kingdom of Denmark, Zealand Pharma A/S, Danske Pharma A/S, Nordea Danmark
